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[Fire Luceti! Fire!!!

The forest is burning with flames that reach higher than many of the residents will have ever seen. There's something off in that fire thought, to begin with no animals are trying to escape from it. Another strange thing is the lack of smoke or heat that should accompany such a big fire. Yet the fire is there, as real as everything else, just lacking the normal effects it should have.

For anyone curious enough to check on it they will find they they can walk through the fire without burning or feeling even an inch warmer then before. Unless they come with evil intentions, in which chances are they will at the very least be burned a bit, and the force of the fire will increase as they approach its center. People without evil intentions will be able to waltz through it as if nothing was there, finding animals and vegetation inside the fire totally unharmed, and in what would be the center of the fire, they'll find Ikki, sitting on a rock with his Pandora Box besides him.

Eyes closed as he sits calmly, anyone capable of feeling or being affected even a bit by his Cosmos will probably notice a poke upon approaching and a great concentration in the young man.]

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[A bird that dies in fire only to rise from the ashes... Ozai had called himself the Phoenix King, he had wanted to birth his new order in fire, burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground...]

It seems like there are a lot of people here who come from worlds that are at war. ...but to have a war fought between those who won't even fight themselves, who use other people to fight... that's horrible.

Athena does fight with us, she even takes a human body, making it possible for her enemies' soldiers to kill her, in order to accompany us. She is also willing to sacrifice herself and would gladly let herself be killed if she knew that with her death the war would stop and we would be saved.

I can't say the same of our enemies. They have taken a human body as well but instead of how Athena does, reincarnating in a human body and living as a human. They posses a human body, trapping the soul of the real owner inside that body and submitting it to their will, so even if we kill that body they will survive and only the host will have died.

[The anger is obvious in his words and a few flames appear around him for a second at the memory of Hades possessing his brother. And of his brother willing to be killed in hopes that that would stop Hades. It only last for a moment thought, after all it's in the past and they won.]

Fortunately, Athena's kindness and power have made it possible for us to win those wars without letting those hosts die.

I'm... glad to hear that. [Ikki might have noticed that when he began to speak of possession, Katara's hands clenched into fists. The subject deeply disturbs her on a very personal level.]

No one should be able to do something like that to someone else. It's horrible. And to use people like that, as pawns... Just when I think I've heard the worst about what can happen in other worlds...

[She glances up, gaze clear and intent.] I'm glad you found a way to win.

I'm glad too.

[Victory would have meant nothing to him if Shun had died after all, it already felt rather empty due Seiya's condition. Ikki doesn't wish to have Shun's soul in the afterlife too, with Esmeralda, both outside his reach for as long as the Phoenix doesn't abandon him.]

The wars have not ended thought. There are too many Gods and Goddesses that consider humans as something that has to be destroyed. It's natural that they will use them as pawns, it's not as if they really consider them anything higher than toys they created and can break when they get bored with them.

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